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Rapture wins airtime on Channel 4 in output deal
Cable and satellite channel Rapture TV has signed an exclusive programming deal with Channel 4 that will see up to 30 hours of the youth channel's output repeated on C4, writes
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Brogan takes Granada kids' role
Granada Media has named Anne Brogan as its first head of children's international live action to oversee a raft of new commissions including a CITV family movie for Christmas 2000, writes
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Half of UK to go digital within three years
Just under half of the UK population plans to sign up to digital TV within three years, according to a new Gallup survey, writes Paul Donovan.Research commissioned by Pace Micro Technology
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SKY PICTURES INKS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM DEAL
Sky Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox to handle the theatrical release of some of the dozen films it is producing over the next 12 months. A
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CAPITAL RADIO SHUTS RESTAURANTS WITH£10.75M LOSSES
Capital Radio has closed its restaurants division at a loss of£10.75 million. The company's seven Latin and two Paris theme restaurants were sold for£11 million on Friday (15 October).
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BBC RECRUITS FOUR IN RIGHTS AGENCY REVAMP
The BBC has made four new appointments as part of a reshuffle in the rights agency. Former head of business affairs Jonathan Masters becomes head of the rights archive and is
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COMMUNICOPIA MERGES WITH NEW MEDIA OUTFIT NETPRO
Communicopia, sole programme provider for the Money Channel (left), has merged with new media outfit Netpro. The pair have worked together on a number of projects over the past three years.
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WOMEN IN FILM & TV NAMES KINNINMONT AS CHAIR
Industry networking organisation Women in Film & Television (WFTV) has elected founding member Kate Kinninmont as its UK chair effective from this month. Kinninmont, a freelance producer with Independent Image and
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AUCTION CHANNEL STRIKES LIVE BROADCAST DEAL
The Auction Channel has signed a one-year deal with Geneva-based auction house Antiquorum to broadcast its auctions live over the television and internet. The Auction Channel will broadcast auctions live with
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CARTOON NETWORK MAKES RADIO DEBUT IN HALF-TERM DEAL
Cartoon Network is to launch on the radio with a special half-term radio version of the cable and satellite channel beginning on Friday (22 October). The station has teamed up with
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HIT APPOINTS JENKINS TO PUBLISHING ROLE
Hit Entertainment has appointed Pilar Jenkins as the producer/distributor's managing director of publishing. Jenkins joins this week from publisher Random House, where she was publishing director responsible for the Red Fox
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BAFTA ELECTS RELPH
Bafta has elected independent film producer Simon Relph as its new deputy chairman and chairman designate. He replaces deputy chairman Edward Mirzeoff in December and chairman Tim Angel in June 2000.
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RADIO PURCHASE APPROVED
The Radio Authority has given its approval to CN Group's purchase of Bay Radio earlier this year (Broadcast, 2.7.99). The purchase by the Carlisle-based group, which publishes newspapers in the region
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PATTY MAKER JOINS HEART
Chrysalis Radio has announced the appointment of Wade Lyn to the board of 100.7 Heart fm and Galaxy 102.2. Lyn, who will be a non-executive director, is managing director of Birmingham-based
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TELETUBBY SPEAKS
Teletubbies creator and creative head of Ragdoll Productions Anne Wood is to take a session in the 1999 British Design & Art Direction's president's lecture series. In a speech entitled Whatever
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Digital radio wins satellite platform
Digital radio received a much-needed boost this week when the GWR Group unveiled three new digital channels and its 20 UK radio stations announced they had secured digital carriage on the
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Worldwide pumps£40m into film
BBC Worldwide has set up a£40 million film fund that will see the corporation's commercial arm invest in a string of new productions through BBC films over the next five
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Samura wins Peck for Sierra Leone coverage
The Rory Peck Trust this week declared Sierra Leonian cameraman Sorious Samura the winner of the 1999 Rory Peck Award, writes Wale Azeez.From a shortlist of five, including three British journalists
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Carlton Food lines up new Xmas fare
Carlton Food Network has lined up five new commissions for Christmas and the new year, writes Wale Azeez.The first of the new shows is fast turnaround show In Season, a 26
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Awards 2000 panel filled
The judging panel for the Broadcast Awards 2000 has been completed with representatives from the BBC and Channel 5.BBC Broadcast deputy director of television and director of new services David Docherty,